Neighbours having a BBQ

[paulhollywoodshairgel]

Twice in the last week our neighbours have have friends and kids over for back garden BBQs. AIBU to report it? Husband is reluctant because he doesn't want any aggro with them.

It just feels so unfair. Why do they get to see friends and carry on as normal? I'd love to see my friends and family but we are adhering to the lockdown.

Just needed to vent as I'm so cross.

Currently have the same issue is reporting anonymous? Hes violent and I dont want the agro but want to do something. Loads of people round (he lives alone) music booming and all drunk! Some people are unbelievable.

Same thing here. Same neighbours think this doesn't apply to them. Second set of visitors today. We can hear them / see because of the layout of our house and garden. We don't have the same social circle so with a bit of luck, we won't cross over with them but we have to live here hence the silent seething but not doing anything

in my street a flat full of sharers are having a bbq with music and laughter while a few doors down, someone has just suffered a Covid related bereavement, they could not see their relation before they died, there's an 8 week wait for a funeral. All of you not living in detached, isolated houses, please just think about the likelihood of someone near to you being in pain right now and how you might respect that.

I heard an upset supermarket worker on the radio today talking about the large amounts of BBQ food alcohol and charcoal being sold, they were very upset about it too, risking their life everyday to be at work while people plan parties.

My exh family live opposite me still, they have a huge house (one of the biggest on the street), both Police Officers with teenagers and they are constantly having people over, or fixing something for neighbours, exercising outside the front!

It's like they just cannot stay inside!

Today I saw them 5 doors up weeding someone's drive way all standing on top of one another! It's a joke.

Unfortunately lots of idiots in my area. Neighbours that go out more than once a day. Today they have a friend over with their kids. Up the road a man and his neigbour pop out for cigarettes and let their kids play together every morning and evening and down the road a women is having a bbq, all fine but then her sister and a few others are now having a bbq. Covidiots

Apparently there is a pub in a North East city that is having lock-ins. I don't live there but have relatives there. It is so irresponsible and dangerous.

The thing that bothers me is, people want to report it because it’s not fair, why are they getting to do it and I can’t. Rather than the fact they are risking people’s lives. Reporting because of spite is pretty crap.

If you report it then it's out of your hands and up to the authorities to decide what steps to take, they can't prevent things they don't know about and as for the neighbours they only have themselves to blame if there's consequences for their stupidity and they knew that when they took that chance.

Police escort family off beach and to the main road
Very near to my ds2... Someone on the comments said if you were told a serial killer on the loose you would stay indoors!!

I have got no problem with having bbqs. We have to make the best of it. There is going to be enough MH problems without adding to that

Mothership have you actually read the fucking thread?

Or at the very least the first post?

Frankly I don't care why people report it as long as they do. It is not necessarily spite to see other people flouting the rules and to be annoyed and do something about it, especially if you are doing all you can to protect your family and others. THEY are putting everyone in harms way and contributing to a longer lock down.

I suspect the sort of person who picks up the phone to report this, gets a great deal of pleasure from doing so.

They shouldn’t be doing it but I couldn’t wind myself up about it. The overwhelming majority of people are following the rules. You’re never going to get 100% of people on board - unless you have a police state (which many of here would love).

They shouldn’t be doing it but I couldn’t wind myself up about it. The overwhelming majority of people are following the rules

But why shouldn’t everyone? Why should people die because of the selfish twats who think the rules don’t apply to them?

This isn’t about snitching on someone for parking in the wrong place, this is genuinely life and death.

I could, as I know someone not old, or with health problems, who is in UTI, very seriously ill indeed. Virus travels far more than 2 metres, we all have to be responsible.

Yes @Thighmageddon I have read the fucking thread. My comment was aimed at the post that seems to saying that having a bbq is wrong and an upsetting thing to do at the moment for others. I didn't @ them as I am fed up of seeing MN posts blowing up and turning into bunfights at the moment.

I know we are all stressed out but is it necessary to swear at someone for making a (not particularly outrageous) point? I am not going to respond anymore to you for the reason I have already given.

Absolutely report it. They are risking the health and lives of others, including front line workers. As well as prolonging the lockdown which is doing serious damage to the economy.

I have got no problem with having bbqs. We have to make the best of it. There is going to be enough MH problems without adding to that

I didn't realise that MH problems could be prevented by BBQs.

Same thing about to happen with our neighbours. Work in the nhs and been there all week and today yet music blaring out and apparently has been all afternoon, the one person I know lives there has been out twice in the last hour in the car (wasn't watching just saw from different rooms) and had 5 extra people there all afternoon. Now she is clearing laying out for a gathering later on....what's the point in reporting as will only get the backlash as husband been attacked by them before and cars coincidentally damaged after they have been reported.......music is every day and just would like some peace :(

These people are fools. When corona comes knocking at their family’s door they will have themselves to blame. Sadly they don’t see that it’s not just themselves at risk. Anyone who hosts a BBQ for people outside of their household is a complete moron and I wouldn’t hesitate to report them. My street are perfectly behaved. Two notes through offering help and a rainbow painting with stat safe and have hope came through today. Nice my street isn’t full of morons

A lot of people seem to think it’s ok to have a social get together with people if you ‘have’ to see them anyway.

I’ve seen an argument blow up on my fb feed between some friends and their family - a middle aged couple posted pics of themselves having a lovely bbq with their son, his wife and their DD. Apparently its fine for them to mix as the father and son work together and the mother is doing childcare for them ‘So they‘re seeing each other anyway’ 🙄.

Half the people from my block are blocking the pavement out to the road from my flat at the moment. We have a path that's only wide enough for one person surrounded by tiny patches of grass belonging to each person. They aren't more than 3ft apart from each other and to make it worse there are cases in our block. Sometimes I dispare at how selfish people are.

My neighbours have had various people over in the last week. I noticed this evening they are both coughing a little. Being high risk and shielded, and they know this, I feel so disappointed that my safe place doesn’t feel safe now. Over 7 days they’ve had people popping in at least 5 days we’re aware of, because they sit in the garden not because I’m curtain twitching.

Report it. Why do the rules, and the reason for them, seem to be so difficult for people to understand??? If I worked in the NHS, or had a loved one who does, I would be incandescent with rage at all these selfish people

Report it, this is life and death.

The people spreading it now will have symptoms in about a week, in a fortnight many will be seriously ill and in week 3 some will need ventilation. The 'some' will only be a manageable number if distancing takes place. Even at manageable numbers many more will die.